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What if Art is not just a man who is ready to retire married to a woman who wants him to keep playing but actually a man in a death spiral whose depression is killing his tennis game and his sorry tennis game is depressing him? What if Tashi wants to save his passion for tennis not just so she can vicariously enjoy him being at the top of his game, but also because she wants to see her husband happy again?

This fandom refusing to entertain the idea Tashi actually loves her husband and wants him to be happy is wild. Not once does Art express excitement about retirement or describe a single thing he wants to do after he stops playing tennis that he's excited about. Tashi is not crazy for thinking he's not (quite) ready to retire, he's just missing Patrick, struggling in his marriage and feeling demoralized by the losses he suffered while recovering from his shoulder injury.